WordPress Basics: How To Manage Your Website

A step-by-step course that covers everything you need to know to manage and grow your WordPress website.

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About This Course

Published 11/2012
English

Course Description

Learn the basics of configuring and managing your WordPress website. Master the creation and updating of content, widgets, plugins and more. 12 lessons guide you step-by-step through everything you need to know to take control of your website.

The course is delivered via step-by-step video tutorials in which I walk you through each stage of launching your website.

Though you can take your time and go at your own pace, you could work though the course in about a day if you wanted. Most people like to take about a week in order to take their time and fully grasp the material.

In this lesson, we look at categories and tags, two different ways for labeling, organizing, and presenting your posts. These both can serve as great ways to create website sections, as well as group related content together.

In this lesson, you'll learn about "widgets," which can both add new functionality to your website, as well as give you a great place to highlight content and other offerings in a highly-visible space throughout your site (usually a sidebar).

In this lesson, you'll learn about "plugins," which are additional programs that can be installed into WordPress to extend it’s functionality. Using plugins, you can add new, dynamic ways of presenting content and interacting with your audience.

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Instructor Biography

For over 15 years, Seth has been building online presence for small businesses, start-ups, non-profits, corporations, and individuals. His accomplishments include creating a social network website from scratch (sold in 2006) and building a social media strategy that grew an organization’s Facebook fans from a few hundred to over 30,000 and Twitter followers from zero to over 12,000. Seth previously managed the design, architecture, and growth strategy for a website that attracted over 200,000 visitors a month. He has been featured in the book Setting Up An Internet Site For Dummies. Seth lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, cat, and dog.